Speaker: Stuart Myles

Company: The Associated Press

Position: Director of Information Management

Stuart Myles is the Director of Information Management at The Associated Press. He directs metadata strategy throughout AP's global news operations. He oversees the AP's bespoke taxonomy and categorization rules and the use of XML and JSON to structure and model the news that AP creates and distributes. Recent projects include designing AP's API services for news content and elections data and architecting AP's Digital News Archive for over 200 million items dating back to 1985. He is Chairman of the Board of the IPTC, where he has co-authored standards for the news industry, including rNews for embedding publishing metadata into HTML and RightsML for representing permissions and restrictions for news content.